Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECKMaybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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